Flesh (?), n. [OE. flesch, flesc, AS. fl/sc; akin to OFries. fl\'besk, D. vleesch, OS. fl/sk, OHG. fleisc, G. fleisch, Icel. & Dan. flesk lard, bacon, pork, Sw. fl\'84sk.] 1. The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.
&hand; In composition it is mainly albuminous<-- proteinaceous-->, but contains in adition a large number of crystalline bodies, such as creatin, xanthin, hypoxanthin, carnin, etc. It is also rich in phosphate of potash.
2. Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.
With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread.
Chaucer.
3. The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.
As if this flesh, which walls about our life,
Were brass impregnable.
Shak.
4. The human eace; mankind; humanity.
All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
Gen. vi. 12.
5. Human nature: (a) In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.
Cowper.
(b) In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality. (c) (Theol.) The character under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences.
6. Kindred; stock; race.
He is our brother and our flesh.
Gen. xxxvii. 27.
7. The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.
&hand; Flesh is often used adjectively or self-explaining compounds; as, flesh broth or flesh-broth; flesh brush or fleshbrush; flesh tint or flesh-tint; flesh wound.
After the flesh, after the manner of man; in a gross or earthly manner. "Ye judge after the flesh." John viii. 15. -- An arm of flesh, human strength or aid. -- Flesh and blood. See under Blood. -- Flesh broth, broth made by boiling flesh in water. -- Flesh fly (Zo\'94l.), one of several species of flies whose larv\'91 or maggots feed upon flesh, as the bluebottle fly; -- called also meat fly, carrion fly, and blowfly. See Blowly. -- Flesh meat, animal food. Swift. -- Flesh side, the side of a skin or hide which was next to the flesh; -- opposed to grain side. -- Flesh tint (Painting), a color used in painting to imitate the hue of the living body. -- Flesh worm (Zo\'94l.), any insect larva of a flesh fly. See Flesh fly (above). -- Proud flesh. See under Proud. -- To be one flesh, to be closely united as in marriage; to become as one person. Gen. ii. 24.
Flesh
Flesh, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fleshed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fleshing.] 1. To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time.
Full bravely hast thou fleshed
Thy maiden sword.
Shak.
The wild dog
Shall flesh his tooth on every innocent.
Shak.
2. To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom. "Fleshed in triumphs."
Glanvill.
Old soldiers
Fleshed in the spoils of Germany and France.
Beau. & Fl.
3. (Leather Manufacture) To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.
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Fleshed
Fleshed (?), a. 1. Corpulent; fat; having flesh.
2. Glutted; satiated; initiated.
Fleshed with slaughter.
Dryden.
Flesher
Flesh"er (?), n. 1. A butcher.
A flesher on a block had laid his whittle down.
Macaulay.
2. A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.
Fleshhood
Flesh"hood (?), n. The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation. [R.]
Thou, who hast thyself
Endured this fleshhood.
Mrs. Browning.
Fleshiness
Flesh"i*ness (?), n. The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness.
Milton.
Fleshings
Flesh"ings (?), n. pl. Flesh-colored tights, worn by actors dancers.
D. Jerrold.
Fleshless
Flesh"less, a. Destitute of flesh; lean.
Carlyle.
Fleshliness
Flesh"li*ness (?), n. The state of being fleshly; carnal passions and appetites.
Spenser.
Fleshing
Flesh"ing (?), n. A person devoted to fleshly things. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Fleshly
Flesh"ly (?), a. [AS. /.] 1. Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal. "Fleshly bondage."
Denham.
2. Animal; not/vegetable.
Dryden.
3. Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine. "Fleshly wisdom."
2 Cor. i. 12.
Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm
And fragile arms.
Milton.
4. Carnal; wordly; lascivious.
Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.
1 Pet. ii. 11.
Fleshly
Flesh"ly, adv. In a fleshly manner; carnally; lasciviously. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Fleshment
Flesh"ment (?), n. The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning. [R.]
Shak.
Fleshmonger
Flesh"mon`ger (?), n. [AS. / mangere.] One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp; a procurer; a pander. [R.]
Shak.
Fleshpot
Flesh"pot` (?), n. A pot or vessel in which flesh is cooked; hence (pl.), plenty; high living.
In the land of Egypt . . . we sat by the fleshpots, and . . . did eat bread to the full.
Ex. xvi. 3.
Fleshquake
Flesh"quake` (?), n. A quaking or trembling of the flesh; a quiver. [Obs.]
B. Jonson.
Fleshy
Flesh"y (?), a. [Compar. Fleshier (?); superl. Fleshiest (?).] 1. Full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross.
The sole of his foot is fleshy.
Ray.
2. Human. [Obs.] "Fleshy tabernacle."
Milton.
3. (Bot.) Composed of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants.
Flet
Flet (?), p. p. of Fleet. Skimmed. [Obs.]
Fletch
Fletch (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fletched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fletching.] [F. fl\'8ache arrow.] To feather, as an arrow.
Bp. Warburton.
[Congress] fletched their complaint, by adding: "America loved his brother."
Bancroft.
Fletcher
Fletch"er (?), n. [OF. flechier.] One who fletches of feathers arrows; a manufacturer of bows and arrows. [Obs.]
Mortimer.
Flete
Flete (?), v. i. [See Fleet, v. i.] To float; to swim. [Obs.] "Whether I sink or flete."
Chaucer.
Fletiferous
Fle*tif"er*ous (?), a. [L. fletifer; fletus a weeping (from flere, fletum, to weep) + ferre to bear.] Producing tears. [Obs.]
Blount.
Fleur-de-lis
Fleur`-de-lis` (?), n.; pl. Fleurs-de-lis (#). [F., flower of the lily. Cf. Flower-de-luce, Lily.] 1. (Bot.) The iris. See Flower-de-luce.
2. A conventional flower suggested by the iris, and having a form which fits it for the terminal decoration of a scepter, the ornaments of a crown, etc. It is also a heraldic bearing, and is identified with the royal arms and adornments of France.
Fleury
Fleur"y (?), a. [F. fleuri covered with flowers, p.p. of fleurir. See Flourish.] (Her.) Finished at the ends with fleurs-de-lis; -- said esp. a cross so decorated.
Flew
Flew (?), imp. of Fly.
Flewed
Flewed (?), a. Having large flews.
Shak.
Flews
Flews (?), n. pl. The pendulous or overhanging lateral parts of the upper lip of dogs, especially prominent in hounds; -- called also chaps. See Illust. of Bloodhound.
Flex
Flex (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flexed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Flexing.] [L. flexus, p.p. of flectere to bend, perh. flectere and akin to falx sickle, E. falchion. Cf. Flinch.] To bend; as, to flex the arm.
Flex
Flex, n. Flax. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Flexanimous
Flex*an"i*mous (?), a. [L. flexanimus; flectere, flexum, to bend + animus mind.] Having power to change the mind. [Obs.]
Howell.
Flexibility
Flex`i*bil"i*ty (?), n. [L. flexibilitas: cf. F. flexibilite.] The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light.
Sir I. Newton.
All the flexibility of a veteran courtier.
Macaulay.
Flexible
Flex"i*ble (?), a. [L. flexibilis: cf. F. flexible.] 1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.
When the splitting wind
Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks.
Shak.
2. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.
Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people.
Bacon.
Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible.
Shak.
3. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language.
This was a principle more flexible to their purpose.
Rogers.
Syn. -- Pliant; pliable; supple; tractable; manageable; ductile; obsequious; inconstant; wavering.
-- Flex"i*ble*ness, n. -- Flex"i*bly, adv.
Flexicostate
Flex`i*cos"tate (?), a. [L. flexus bent + E. costate.] (Anat.) Having bent or curved ribs.
Flexile
Flex"ile (?), a. [L. flexilis.] Flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable.
Wordsworth.
Flexion
Flex"ion (?), n. [L. flexio: cf. F. flexion.] 1. The act of flexing or bending; a turning.
2. A bending; a part bent; a fold.
Bacon.
3. (Gram.) Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection.
Express the syntactical relations by flexion.
Sir W. Hamilton.
4. (Physiol.) The bending of a limb or joint; that motion of a joint which gives the distal member a continually decreasing angle with the axis of the proximal part; -- distinguished from extension.
Flexor
Flex"or (?), n. [NL.] (Anat.) A muscle which bends or flexes any part; as, the flexors of the arm or the hand; -- opposed to extensor.
Flexuose
Flex"u*ose` (?; 135), a. Flexuous.
Flexuous
Flex"u*ous (?), a. [L. flexuosus, fr. flexus a bending, turning.] 1. Having turns, windings, or flexures.
2. (Bot.) Having alternate curvatures in opposite directions; bent in a zigzag manner.
3. Wavering; not steady; flickering.
Bacon.
Flexural
Flex"u*ral (?), a. [From Flexure.] Of, pertaining to, or resulting from, flexure; of the nature of, or characterized by, flexure; as, flexural elasticity.
Flexure
Flex"ure (?; 135), n. [L. flexura.] 1. The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending.
Will it give place to flexure and low bending?
Shak.
2. A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.
Varying with the flexures of the valley through which it meandered.
British Quart. Rev.
3. (Zo\'94l.) The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
4. (Astron.) The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or substracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.
The flexure of a curve (Math.), the bending of a curve towards or from a straight line.
Flibbergib
Flib"ber*gib (?), n. A sycophant. [Obs. & Humorous.] "Flatterers and flibbergibs."
Latimer.
Flibbertigibbet
Flib"ber*ti*gib`bet (?), n. An imp.
Shak.
Flibustier
Fli`bus`tier" (?), n. [F.] A buccaneer; an American pirate. See Flibuster. [Obs.]
Flick
Flick (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flicked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Flicking.] [Cf. Flicker.] To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots.
Thackeray.
Flick
Flick, n. A flitch; as, a flick of bacon.
Flicker
Flick"er (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flickered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Flickering.] [OE. flikeren, flekeren, to flutter, AS. flicerian, flicorian, cf. D. flikkeren to sparkle. / 84. Cf. Flacker.] 1. To flutter; to flap the wings without flying.
And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing.
Dryden.
2. To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light.
The shadows flicker to fro.
Tennyson.
Flicker
Flick"er, n. 1. The act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame.
2. (Zo\'94l.) The golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca.
The cackle of the flicker among the oaks.
Thoureau.
Flickeringly
Flick"ering*ly, adv. In a flickering manner.
Flickermouse
Flick"er*mouse` (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) See Flittermouse.
Flidge
Flidge (?), a. Fledged; fledge. [Obs.]
Holland.
Flidge
Flidge, v. i. To become fledged; to fledge. [Obs.]
Every day build their nests, every hour flidge.
R. Greene.
Flier
Fli"er (?), n. [Form Fly, v.; cf. Flyer] 1. One who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive.
Shak.
2. (Mach.) A fly. See Fly, n., 9, and 13 (b).
3. (Spinning) See Flyer, n., 5.
4. (Arch.) See Flyer, n., 4.
Flight
Flight (?), n. [AS. fliht, flyht, a flying, fr. fle\'a2gan to fly; cf. flyht a fleeing, fr. fle\'a2n to flee, G. flucht a fleeing, Sw. flykt, G. flug a flying, Sw. flygt, D. vlugt a fleeing or flying, Dan. flugt. &root;84. See Flee, Fly.] 1. The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.
Like the night owl's lazy flight.
Shak.
2. The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure.
Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
Matt. xxiv. 20.
Fain by flight to save themselves.
Shak.
3. Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa/ing; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly.
Could he have kept his spirit to that flight,
He had been happy.
Byron.
His highest flights were indeed far below those of Taylor.
Macaulay.
4. A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows.
Swift.
Swift flights of angels ministrant.
Milton.
Like a flight of fowl
Scattered winds and tempestuous gusts.
Shak.
5. A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.
Parker.
6. A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft. [Obs.]
Challenged Cupid at the flight.
Shak.
Not a flight drawn home
E'er made that haste that they have.
Beau. & Fl.
7. The husk or glume of oats. [Prov. Eng.]
Wright.
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Flight feathers (Zo\'94l.), the wing feathers of a bird, including the quills, coverts, and bastard wing. See Bird. -- To put to flight, To turn to flight, to compel to run away; to force to flee; to rout.
Syn. -- Pair; set. See Pair.
Flighted
Flight"ed (?), a. 1. Taking flight; flying; -- used in composition. "Drowsy-flighted steeds."
Milton.
2. (Her.) Feathered; -- said of arrows.
Flighter
Flight"er (?), n. (Brewing) A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor.
Knight.
Flightily
Flight"i*ly (?), adv. In a flighty manner.
Flightiness
Flight"i*ness, n. The state or quality of being flighty.
The flightness of her temper.
Hawthorne.
Syn. -- Levity; giddiness; volatility; lightness; wildness; eccentricity. See Levity.
Flight-shot
Flight"-shot` (?), n. The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, -- about the fifth of a mile. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Within a flight-shot it inthe valley.
Evelyn.
Half a flight-shot from the king's oak.
Sir W. Scott.
Flighty
Flight"y (?), a. 1. Fleeting; swift; transient.
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook,
Unless the deed go with it.
Shak.
2. Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disorder/ fancies and extravagant conduct; volatile / giddy; eccentric; slighty delirious.
Proofs of my flighty and paradoxical turn of mind.
Coleridge.
A harsh disciplinarian and a flighty enthusiast.
J. S. Har/ord.
Flimflam
Flim"flam (?), n. [Cf. Flam.] A freak; a trick; a lie.
Beau. & Fl.
Flimsily
Flim"si*ly (?), adv. In a flimsy manner.
Flimsiness
Flim"si*ness, n. The state or quality of being flimsy.
Flimsy
Flim"sy (?), a. [Compar. Flimsier (?); superl. Flimsiest.] [Cf. W. llumsi naked, bare, empty, slouggish, spiritless. Cf. Limsy.] Weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse, objection.
Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines.
Pope.
All the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain.
Sheridan.
Syn. -- Weak; feeble; superficial; shallow; vain.
Flimsy
Flim"sy, n. 1. Thin or transfer paper.
2. A bank note. [Slang, Eng.]
Flinch
Flinch (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flinched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Flinching.] [Prob. fr. OE. flecchen to waver, give way, F. fl\'82chir, fr. L. flectere to bend; but prob. influenced by E. blench. Cf. Flex.] 1. To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat.
A child, by a constant course of kindness, may be accustomed to bear very rough usage without flinching or complaining.
Locke.
2. (Croquet) To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
Flinch
Flinch, n. The act of flinching.
Flincher
Flinch"er (?), n.One who flinches or fails.
Flinchingly
Flinch"ing*ly, adv. In a flinching manner.
Flindermouse
Flin"der*mouse` (?), n.[OE. vlindre moth (cf. D. vlinder butterfly) + E. mouse. Cf. Flittermouse, Flinders.] (Zo\'94l.) A bat; a flittermouse.
Flinders
Flin"ders (?), n. pl. [Scot. flenders, flendris; perh. akin to E. flutter; cf. D. flenters rags, broken pieces.] Small pieces or splinters; fragments.
The tough ash spear, so stout and true,
Into a thousand flinders flew.
Sir W. Scott.
Fling
Fling (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flung (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Flinging.] [OE. flingen, flengen, to rush, hurl; cf. Icel. flengia to whip, ride furiously, OSw. flenga to strike, Sw. fl\'84nga to romp, Dan. flenge to slash.] 1. To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.
'T is Fate that flings the dice: and, as she flings,
Of kings makes peasants, and of peasants kings.
Dryden.
He . . . like Jove, his lighting flung.
Dryden.
I know thy generous temper well.
Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it,
It straight takes fire.
Addison.
2. To shed forth; to emit; to scatter.
The sun begins to fling
His flaring beams.
Milton.
Every beam new transient colors flings.
Pope.
3. To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation.
His horse started, flung him, and fell upon him.
Walpole.
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To fling about, to throw on all sides; to scatter. -- To fling away, to reject; to discard.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.
Shak.
--To fling down. (a) To throw to the ground; esp., to throw in defiance, as formerly knights cast a glove into the arena as a challenge.
This question so flung down before the guests, . . .
Was handed over by consent of all
To me who had not spoken.
Tennyson.
(b) To overturn; to demolish; to ruin. -- To fling in, to throw in; not to charge in an account; as, in settling accounts, one party flings in a small sum, or a few days' work. -- To fling off, to baffle in the chase; to defeat of prey; also, to get rid of. Addison. -- To fling open, to throw open; to open suddenly or with violence; as, to fling open a door. -- To fling out, to utter; to speak in an abrupt or harsh manner; as, to fling out hard words against another. -- To fling up, to relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design.
Fling
Fling (?), v. i. 1. To throw; to wince; to flounce; as, the horse began to kick and fling.
2. To cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer; as, the scold began to flout and fling.
3. To throw one's self in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence or haste.
And crop-full, out of doors he flings.
Milton.
I flung closer to his breast,
As sword that, after battle, flings to sheath.
Mrs. Browning.
To fling out, to become ugly and intractable; to utter sneers and insinuations.
Fling
Fling, n. 1. A cast from the hand; a throw; also, a flounce; a kick; as, the fling of a horse.
2. A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.
I, who love to have a fling,
Both at senate house and king.
Swift.
3. A kind of dance; as, the Highland fling.
4. A trifing matter; an object of contempt. [Obs.]
England were but a fling
Save for the crooked stick and the gray goose wing.
Old Proverb.
To have one's fling, to enjoy one's self to the full; to have a season of dissipation. J. H. Newman. "When I was as young as you, I had my fling. I led a life of pleasure." D. Jerrold.
Flingdust
Fling"dust` (?), n. One who kicks up the dust; a streetwalker; a low manner. [Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.
Flinger
Fling"er (?), n. One who flings; one who jeers.
Flint
Flint (?), n. [AS. flint, akin to Sw. flinta, Dan. flint; cf. OHG. flins flint, G. flinte gun (cf. E. flintlock), perh. akin to Gr. / brick. Cf. Plinth.] 1. (Min.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.
2. A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
3. Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint. "A heart of flint."
Spenser.
Flint age. (Geol.) Same as Stone age, under Stone. -- Flint brick, a fire made principially of powdered silex. -- Flint glass. See in the Vocabulary. -- Flint implements (Arch\'91ol.), tools, etc., employed by men before the use of metals, such as axes, arrows, spears, knives, wedges, etc., which were commonly made of flint, but also of granite, jade, jasper, and other hard stones. -- Flint mill. (a) (Pottery) A mill in which flints are ground. (b) (Mining) An obsolete appliance for lighting the miner at his work, in which flints on a revolving wheel were made to produce a shower of sparks, which gave light, but did not inflame the fire damp. Knight. -- Flint stone, a hard, siliceous stone; a flint. -- Flint wall, a kind of wall, common in England, on the face of which are exposed the black surfaces of broken flints set in the mortar, with quions of masonry. -- Liquor of flints, a solution of silica, or flints, in potash. -- To skin a flint, to be capable of, or guilty of, any expedient or any meanness for making money. [Colloq.]
Flint glass
Flint" glass` (?). (Chem.) A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass. Cf. Glass.
&hand; The concave or diverging half on an achromatic lens is usually made of flint glass.
Flint-hearted
Flint"-heart`ed (?), a. Hard-hearted.
Shak.
Flintiness
Flint"i*ness (?), n. The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty.
Beau. & Fl.
Flintlock
Flint"lock` (?), n. 1. A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on stricking the steel ignites the priming.
2. A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.
Flintware
Flint"ware` (?), n. A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely.
Knight.
Flintwood
Flint"wood` (?), n. (Bot.) An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis.
Flinty
Flint"y (?), a. [Compar. Flintier (?); superl. Flintiest.] Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.
Flinty rock??/, ∨ Flinty state, a siliceous slate; -- basanite is here included. See Basanite.
Flip
Flip (?), n. [Cf. Prov. E. flip nimble, flippant, also, a slight blow. Cf. Flippant.] A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.
Flip dog, an iron used, when heated, to warm flip.
Flip
Flip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flipped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Flipping.] To toss or fillip; as, to flip up a cent.
As when your little ones
Do 'twixt their fingers flip their cherry stones.
W. Browne.
Flipe
Flipe (?), v. t. To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on. [Scot.]
Flip-flap
Flip"-flap` (?), n. [See Flip, and Flap.] The repeated stroke of something long and loose.
Johnson.
Flip-flap
Flip"-flap`, adv. With repeated strokes and noise, as of something long and loose.
Ash.
Flippancy
Flip"pan*cy (?), n.[See Flippant.] The state or quality of being flippant.
This flippancy of language.
Bp. Hurd.
Flippant
Flip"pant (?), a. [Prov. E. flip to move nimbly; cf. W. llipa soft, limber, pliant, or Icel. fleipa to babble, prattle. Cf. Flip, Fillip, Flap, Flipper.] 1. Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.
It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech.
Barrow.
2. Speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or consideration; empty; trifling; inconsederate; pert; petulant. "Flippant epilogous."
Thomson.
To put flippant scorn to the blush.
I. Taylor.
A sort of flippant, vain discourse.
Burke.
Flippant
Flip"pant, n. A flippant person. [R.]
Tennyson.
Flippantly
Flip"pant*ly, adv. In a flippant manner.
Flippantness
Flip"pant*ness, n. State or quality of being flippant.
Flipper
Flip"per (?), n. [Cf. Flip, Flippant.] 1. (Zo\'94l.) A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.
2. (Naut.) The hand. [Slang]
Flirt
Flirt (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flirted; p. pr. & vb. n. Flirting.] [Cf. AS. fleard trifle, folly, fleardian to trifle.] 1. To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.
2. To toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan.
3. To jeer at; to treat with contempt; to mock. [Obs.]
I am ashamed; I am scorned; I am flirted.
Beau. & Fl.
Flirt
Flirt, v. i. 1. To run and dart about; to act with giddiness, or from a desire to attract notice; especially, to play the coquette; to play at courtship; to coquet; as, they flirt with the young men.
2. To utter contemptious language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe. [Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.
Flirt
Flirt, n. 1. A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer.
Several little flirts and vibrations.
Addison.
With many a flirt and flutter.
E. A. Poe.
2. [Cf. LG. flirtje, G. flirtchen. See Flirt, v. t.] One who flirts; esp., a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl.
Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world.
Addison.
Flirt
Flirt, a. Pert; wanton. [Obs.]
Flirtation
Flir*ta"tion (?), n. 1. Playing at courtship; coquerty.
The flirtations and jealousies of our ball rooms.
Macaulay.
Flirt-gill
Flirt"-gill` (?), n. A woman of light behavior; a gill-flirt. [Obs.]
Shak.
You heard him take me up like a flirt-gill.
Beau. & Fl.
Flirtigig
Flirt"i*gig (?), n. A wanton, pert girl. [Obs.]
Flirtingly
Flirt"ing*ly, adv. In a flirting manner.
Flisk
Flisk (?), v. i. To frisk; to skip; to caper. [Obs. Scot.] "The flisking flies."
Gosson.
Flisk
Flisk, n. A caper; a spring; a whim. [Scot.]
Flit
Flit (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flitted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Flitting (?).] [OE. flitten, flutten, to carry away; cf. Icel. flytja, Sw. flytta, Dan. flytte. / 84. Cf. Fleet, v. i.] 1. To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along.
A shadow flits before me.
Tennyson.
2. To flutter; to rove on the wing.
Dryden.
3. To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate.
It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did flit out of one body into some other.
Hooker.
4. To remove from one place or habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
Wright. Jamieson.
5. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
And the free soul to flitting air resigned.
Dryden.
Flit
Flit, a. Nimble; quick; swift. [Obs.] See Fleet.
Flitch
Flitch (?), n.; pl. Flitches (#). [OE. flicche, flikke, AS. flicce, akin to Icel. flikki; cf. Icel. fl\'c6k flap, tatter; perh. akin to E. fleck. Cf. Flick, n.] 1. The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.
Swift.
2. One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.
3. The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab. [Eng.]
Flite
Flite (?), v. i. [AS. fl\'c6tan to strive, contend, quarrel; akin to G. fleiss industry.] To scold; to quarrel. [Prov. Eng.]
Grose.
Flitter
Flit"ter (?), v. i. To flutter. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Flitter
Flit"ter, v. t. To flutter; to move quickly; as, to flitter the cards. [R.]
Lowell.
Flitter
Flit"ter, n. [Cf. G. flitter spangle, tinsel, flittern to make a tremulous motion, to glitter. Cf. Flitter, v. i.] A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.
Flittermouse
Flit"ter*mouse` (?), n. [Flitter, v.i. + mouse; cf. G. fledermaus, OHG. fledarm/s. Cf. Flickermouse, Flindermouse.] (Zo\'94l.) A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.
Flittern
Flit"tern (?), a.A term applied to the bark obtained from young oak trees.
McElrath.
Flittiness
Flit"ti*ness (?), n. [From Flitty.] Unsteadiness; levity; lightness. [Obs.]
Bp. Hopkins.
Flitting
Flit"ting (?), n. 1. A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.
2. A removal from one habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
A neighbor had lent his cart for the flitting, and it was now standing loaded at the door, ready to move away.
Jeffrey.
Flittingly
Flit"ting*ly, adv.In a flitting manner.
Flitty
Flit"ty (?), a. [From Flit.] Unstable; fluttering. [Obs.]
Dr. H. More.
Flix
Flix (?), n. [Cf. Flax.] Down; fur. [Obs. or Eng.]
J. Dyer.
Flix
Flix, n.The flux; dysentery. [Obs.]
Udall.
Flix weed (Bot.), the Sisymbrium Sophia, a kind of hedge mustard, formerly used as a remedy for dysentery.
Flo
Flo (?), n.; pl. Flon (#). [AS. fl\'be, fl\'ben.] An arrow. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Float
Float (?), n.[OE. flote ship, boat, fleet, AS. flota ship, fr. fle\'a2tan to float; akin to D. vloot fleet, G. floss raft, Icel. floti float, raft, fleet, Sw. flotta. &root; 84. See Fleet, v. i., and cf. Flotilla, Flotsam, Plover.] 1. Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something. Specifically: (a) A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft. (b) The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler. (c) The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish. (d) Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.
This reform bill . . . had been used as a float by the conservative ministry.
J. P. Peters.
2. A float board. See Float board (below).
3. (Tempering) A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.
Knight.
4. The act of flowing; flux; flow. [Obs.]
Bacon.
5. A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep. [Obs.]
Mortimer.
6. (Plastering) The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.
7. A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
Knight.
8. A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.
9. A coal cart. [Eng.]
Simmonds.
10. The sea; a wave. See Flote, n.
Float board, one of the boards fixed radially to the rim of an undershot water wheel or of a steamer's paddle wheel; -- a vane. -- Float case (Naut.), a caisson used for lifting a ship. -- Float copper ∨ gold (Mining), fine particles of metallic copper or of gold suspended in water, and thus liable to be lost. -- Float ore, water-worn particles of ore; fragments of vein material found on the surface, away from the vein outcrop. Raymond. -- Float stone (Arch.), a siliceous stone used to rub stonework or brickwork to a smooth surface. -- Float valve, a valve or cock acted upon by a float. See Float, 1 (b).
Float
Float, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Floated; p. pr. & vb. n. Floating.] [OE. flotien, flotten, AS. flotian to float, swim, fr. fle\'a2tan. See Float, n.] 1. To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
The ark no more now floats, but seems on ground.
Milton.
Three blustering nights, borne by the southern blast,
I floated.
Dryden.
2. To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air.
They stretch their broad plumes and float upon the wind.
Pope.
There seems a floating whisper on the hills.
Byron.
Float
Float, v. t. 1. To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.
Had floated that bell on the Inchcape rock.
Southey.
2. To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
Proud Pactolus floats the fruitful lands.
Dryden.
3. (Plastering) To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.
4. To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable / it to go into, or continue in, operation.
Floatable
Float"a*ble (?), a. That may be floated.
Floatage
Float"age (?; 48), n. Same as Flotage.
Floatation
Float*a"tion (?), n.See Flotation.
Floater
Float"er (?), n. 1. One who floats or swims.
2. A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.
Floating
Float"ing, a. 1. Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.
2. Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.
3. Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.
Trade was at an end. Floating capital had been withdrawn in great masses from the island.
Macaulay.
Floating anchor (Naut.), a drag or sea anchor; drag sail. -- Floating battery (Mil.), a battery erected on rafts or the hulls of ships, chiefly for the defense of a coast or the bombardment of a place. -- Floating bridge. (a) A bridge consisting of rafts or timber, with a floor of plank, supported wholly by the water; a bateau bridge. See Bateau. (b) (Mil.) A kind of double bridge, the upper one projecting beyond the lower one, and capable of being moved forward by pulleys; -- used for carrying troops over narrow moats in attacking the outworks of a fort. (c) A kind of ferryboat which is guided and impelled by means of chains which are anchored on each side of a stream, and pass over wheels on the vessel, the wheels being driven by stream power. (d) The landing platform of a ferry dock. -- Floating cartilage (Med.), a cartilage which moves freely in the cavity of a joint, and often interferes with the functions of the latter. -- Floating dam. (a) An anchored dam. (b) A caisson used as a gate for a dry dock. -- Floating derrick, a derrick on a float for river and harbor use, in raising vessels, moving stone for harbor improvements, etc. -- Floating dock. (Naut.) See under Dock. -- Floating harbor, a breakwater of cages or booms, anchored and fastened together, and used as a protection to ships riding at anchor to leeward. Knight. -- Floating heart (Bot.), a small aquatic plant (Limnanthemum lacunosum) whose heart-shaped leaves float on the water of American ponds. -- Floating island, a dish for dessert, consisting of custard with floating masses of whipped cream or white of eggs. -- Floating kidney. (Med.) See Wandering kidney, under Wandering. -- Floating light, a light shown at the masthead of a vessel moored over sunken rocks, shoals, etc., to warn mariners of danger; a light-ship; also, a light erected on a buoy or floating stage. -- Floating liver. (Med.) See Wandering liver, under Wandering. -- Floating pier, a landing stage or pier which rises and falls with the tide. -- Floating ribs (Anat.), the lower or posterior ribs which are not connected with the others in front; in man they are the last two pairs. -- Floating screed (Plastering), a strip of plastering first laid on, to serve as a guide for the thickness of the coat. -- Floating threads (Weaving), threads which span several other threads without being interwoven with them, in a woven fabric.
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Floating
Float"ing (?), n. 1. (Weaving) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.
2. The second coat of three-coat plastering.
Knight.
Floatingly
Float"ing*ly, adv. In a floating manner.
Floaty
Float"y (?), a. Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light.
Sir W. Raleigh.
Flobert
Flo"bert (?), n. (Gun.) A small cartridge designed for target shooting; -- sometimes called ball cap.
Flobert rifle, a rifle adapted to the use of floberts.
Floccillation
Floc`cil*la"tion (?), n. [L. floccus a flock of wool. Cf. Flock of wool.] (Med.) A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases.
Dunglison.
Floc/cose
Floc/cose" (?), a. [L. floccosus. Cf. 2d Flock, n.] 1. Spotted with small tufts like wool.
Wright.
2. (Bot.) Having tufts of soft hairs, which are often deciduous.
Floccular
Floc"cu*lar (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the flocculus.
Flocculate
Floc"cu*late (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flocculated; p. pr. & vb. n. Flocculating.] (Geol.) To aggregate into small lumps.
Flocculate
Floc"cu*late (?), a. (Zo\'94l.) Furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.
Flocculation
Floc`cu*la"tion (?), n. (Geol.) The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.
Flocculence
Floc"cu*lence (?), n. The state of being flocculent.
Flocculent
Floc"cu*lent (?), a. [See Flock of wool.] 1. Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.
Gray.
2. (Zo\'94l.) Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds.
Flocculus
Floc"cu*lus (?), n.; pl. Flocculi (#). [NL., dim. of L. floccus a lock or flock of wool.] (Anat.) A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe.
Floccus
Floc"cus (?), n.; pl. Flocci (#). [L., a flock of wool.] 1. (Zo\'94l.) (a) The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds.
2. (Bot.) A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi.
Flock
Flock (?), n. [AS. flocc flock, company; akin to Icel. flokkr crowd, Sw. flock, Dan. flok; prob. orig. used of flows, and akin to E. fly. See Fly.] 1. A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl.
Milton.
The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks.
2 Macc. xiv. 14.
2. A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.
As half amazed, half frighted all his flock.
Tennyson.
Flock
Flock, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flocked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Flocking.] To gather in companies or crowds.
Friends daily flock.
Dryden.
Flocking fowl (Zo\'94l.), the greater scaup duck.
Flock
Flock, v. t. To flock to; to crowd. [Obs.]
Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so.
Taylor (1609).
Flock
Flock, n. [OE. flokke; cf. D. vlok, G. flocke, OHG. floccho, Icel. fl/ki, perh. akin to E. flicker, flacker, or cf. L. floccus, F. floc.] 1. A lock of wool or hair.
I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point [pommel].
Shak.
2. Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. ∨ pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.
3. Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose.
Flock bed, a bed filled with flocks or locks of coarse wool, or pieces of cloth cut up fine. "Once a flock bed, but repaired with straw." Pope. -- Flock paper, paper coated with flock fixed with glue or size.
Flock
Flock, v. t. To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock.
Flockling
Flock"ling, n. A lamb. [Obs.]
Brome (1659).
Flockly
Flock"ly, adv. In flocks; in crowds. [Obs.]
Flockmel
Flock"mel (?), adv. [AS. flocm/lum. See Meal part.] In a flock; in a body. [Obs.]
That flockmel on a day they to him went.
Chaucer.
Flocky
Flock"y, a. Abounding with flocks; floccose.
Floe
Floe (?), n. [Cf. Dan. flag af iis, iisflage, Sw. flaga, flake, isflaga, isflake. See Flag a flat stone.] A low, flat mass of floating ice.
Floe rat (Zo\'94l.), a seal (Phoca f\'d2tida).
Flog
Flog (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flogged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Flogging (?).] [Cf. Scot. fleg blow, stroke, kick, AS. flocan to strike, or perh. fr. L. flagellare to whip. Cf. Flagellate.] To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.
Flogger
Flog"ger (?), n. 1. One who flogs.
2. A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.
Knight.
Flogging
Flog"ging (?), a. & n. from Flog, v. t.
Flogging chisel (Mach.), a large cold chisel, used in chipping castings. -- Flogging hammer, a small sledge hammer used for striking a flogging chisel.
Flon
Flon (?), n. pl. See Flo. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Flong
Flong (? ∨ ?), obs. imp. & p. p. of Fling.
Flood
Flood (?), n. [OE. flod a flowing, stream, flood, AS. fl&omac;d; akin to D. vloed, OS. fl&omac;d, OHG. fluot, G. flut, Icel. fl&omac;&edh;, Sw. & Dan. flod, Goth. fl&omac;dus; from the root of E. flow. &root;80. See Flow, v. i.] 1. A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.
A covenant never to destroy
The earth again by flood.
Milton.
2. The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Shak.
3. A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
4. Menstrual disharge; menses.
Harvey.
Flood anchor (Naut.) , the anchor by which a ship is held while the tide is rising. -- Flood fence, a fence so secured that it will not be swept away by a flood. -- Flood gate, a gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate. -- Flood mark, the mark or line to which the tide, or a flood, rises; high-water mark. -- Flood tide, the rising tide; -- opposed to ebb tide. -- The Flood, the deluge in the days of Noah.
Flood
Flood, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Flooding.] 1. To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
2. To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.
Floodage
Flood"age (?; 48), n. Inundation. [R.]
Carlyle.
Flooder
Flood"er (?), n. One who floods anything.
Flooding
Flood"ing, n. The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
2. (Med.) An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus.
Dunglison.
Flook
Flook (?), n. A fluke of an anchor.
Flookan, Flukan
Flook"an (?), Flu"kan (?), n. (Mining) See Flucan.
Flooky
Flook"y (?), a. Fluky.
Floor
Floor (?), n. [AS. fl/r; akin to D. vloer, G. flur field, floor, entrance hall, Icel. fl/r floor of a cow stall, cf. Ir. & Gael. lar floor, ground, earth, W. llawr, perh. akin to L. planus level. Cf. Plain smooth.] 1. The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.
2. The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2.
3. The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge.
4. A story of a building. See Story.
5. (Legislative Assemblies) (a) The part of the house assigned to the members. (b) The right to speak. [U.S.]
&hand; Instead of he has the floor, the English say, he is in possession of the house.
6. (Naut.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
7. (Mining) (a) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit. (b) A horizontal, flat ore body.
Raymond.
Floor cloth, a heavy fabric, painted, varnished, or saturated, with waterproof material, for covering floors; oilcloth. -- Floor cramp, an implement for tightening the seams of floor boards before nailing them in position. -- Floor light, a frame with glass panes in a floor. -- Floor plan. (a) (Shipbuilding) A longitudinal section, showing a ship as divided at the water line. (b) (Arch.) A horizontal section, showing the thickness of the walls and partitions, arrangement of passages, apartments, and openings at the level of any floor of a house.
Floor
Floor, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Floored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Flooring.] 1. To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.
2. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent.
Floored or crushed by him.
Coleridge.
3. To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination. [Colloq.]
I've floored my little-go work.
T. Hughes.
Floorage
Floor"age (?; 48), n. Floor space.
Floorer
Floor"er (?), n. Anything that floors or upsets a person, as a blow that knocks him down; a conclusive answer or retort; a task that exceeds one's abilities. [Colloq.]
Floorheads
Floor"heads`, n. pl. (Naut.) The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel.
Flooring
Floor"ing, n. A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n.
Addison.
2. Material for the construction of a floor or floors.
Floorless
Floor"less, a. Having no floor.
Floorwalker
Floor"walk`er (?), n. One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director. [U.S.]
Flop
Flop (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flopped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Flopping.] [A variant of flap.] 1. To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.
2. To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat. [Colloq.]
Fielding.
Flop
Flop (?), v. i. 1. To strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops.
2. To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground. [Colloq.]
Dickens.
Flop
Flop, n. Act of flopping. [Colloq.]
W. H. Russell.
Floppy
Flop"py (?), n. Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim.
G. Eliot.
Flopwing
Flop"wing` (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The lapwing.
Flora
Flo"ra (?), n. [L., the goddess of flowers, from flos, floris, flower. See Flower.] 1. (Rom. Myth.) The goddess of flowers and spring.
2. (Bot.) The complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants.
Floral
Flo"ral (?), a. [L. Floralis belonging to Flora: cf. F. floral. See Flora.] 1. Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, wreaths.
2. (Bot.) Containing, or belonging to, a flower; as, a floral bud; a floral leaf; floral characters.
Martyn.
Floral envelope (Bot.), the calyx and corolla, one or the other of which (mostly the corolla) may be wanting.
Florally
Flo"ral*ly, adv. In a floral manner.
Floramour
Flo"ra*mour (?), n.[L. flos, floris, flower + amorlove.] The plant love-lies-bleeding. [Obs.]
Prior.
Floran
Flo"ran (?), n. (Mining) Tin ore scarcely perceptible in the stone; tin ore stamped very fine.
Pryce.
Flor\'82al
Flo`r\'82al" (?), n. [F. flor\'82al, fr. L. flos, floris, flower.] The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vend\'82miare.
Floren
Flor"en (?), n. [LL. florenus. See Florin.] A cerain gold coin; a Florence. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Florence
Flor"ence (?), n. [From the city of Florence: cf. F. florence a kind of cloth, OF. florin.] 1. An ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III., of six shillings sterling value.
Camden.
2. A kind of cloth.
Johnson.
Florence flask. See under Flask. -- Florence oil, olive oil prepared in Florence.
Florentine
Flor"en*tine (? ∨ ?; 277), a. [L. Florentinus, fr. Florentia Florence: cf. F. florentin.] Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy.
Florentine mosaic, a mosaic of hard or semiprecious stones, often so chosen and arranged that their natural colors represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a background, usually of black or white marble.
Florentine
Flor"en*tine, n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Florence, a city in Italy.
2. A kind of silk.
Knight.
3. A kind of pudding or tart; a kind of meat pie. [Obs.]
Stealing custards, tarts, and florentines.
Beau. & Fl.
Florescence
Flo*res"cence (?), n. [See Florescent.] (Bot.) A bursting into flower; a blossoming.
Martyn.
Florescent
Flo*res"cent (?), a. [L. florescens, p.pr. of florescere begin to blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See Flower.] Expanding into flowers; blossoming.
Floret
Flo"ret (?), n. [OF. florete, F. fleurette, dim. of OF. lor, F. fleur. See Flower, and cf. Floweret, 3d Ferret.] 1. (Bot.) A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.
Gray.
2. [F. fleuret.] A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing. [Obs.]
Cotgrave.
Floriage
Flo"ri*age (?), n. [L. flos, flori/, flower.] Bloom; blossom. [Obs.]
J. Scott.
Floriated
Flo"ri*a`ted (?), a. (Arch.) Having floral ornaments; as, floriated capitals of Gothic pillars.
Floricmous
Flo*ric"mous (?), a. [L. flos, floris, flower + coma hair.] Having the head adorned with flowers. [R.]
Floricultural
Flo`ri*cul"tur*al (? ∨ ?; 135), a. Pertaining to the cultivation of flowering plants.
Floriculture
Flo"ri*cul`ture (? ∨ ?; 135, 277), n. [L. flos, floris, flower + cultura culture.] The cultivation of flowering plants.
Floriculturist
Flo`ri*cul"tur*ist (?), n. One skilled in the cultivation of flowers; a florist.
Florid
Flor"id (?), a. [L. floridus, fr. flos, floris, flower. See Flower.] 1. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. [R.]
Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree.
Jer. Taylor.
2. Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.
3. Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.
4. (Mus.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.
Florida bean
Flor"i*da bean" (?). (Bot.) (a) The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean. (b) One of the very large seeds of the Entada scandens.
Floride\'91
Flo*rid"e*\'91 (?), n. pl. [NL., from L. flos, floris, a flower.] (Bot.) A subclass of alg\'91 including all the red or purplish seaweeds; the Rhodosperme\'91 of many authors; -- so called from the rosy or florid color of most of the species.
Floridity
Flo*rid"i*ty (?), n. The quality of being florid; floridness.
Floyer.
Floridly
Flor"id*ly (?), adv. In a florid manner.
Floridness
Flor"id*ness, n. The quality of being florid.
Boyle.
Floriferous
Flo*rif"er*ous (?), a. [L. florifer; flos, floris, flower + ferre to bear; cf. F. florif\'8are.] Producing flowers.
Blount.
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Florification
Flo`ri*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [L. flos, floris, flower + facere to make.] The act, process, or time of flowering; florescence.
Floriform
Flo"ri*form (? ∨ ?), a. [L. flos, floris, flower + -form: cf. F. floriforme.] Having the form of a flower; flower-shaped.
Floriken
Flo"ri*ken (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) An Indian bustard (Otis aurita). The Bengal floriken is Sypheotides Bengalensis. [Written also florikan, floriken, florican.]
Florilege
Flo"ri*lege (?), n. [L. florilegus flower-culling; flos, floris, flower + legere to gather: cf. F. floril\'8age.] The act of gathering flowers.
Florimer
Flo"ri*mer (?), n. (Bot.) See Floramour. [Obs.]
Florin
Flor"in (?), n. [F. florin, It. florino, orig., a Florentine coin, with a lily on it, fr. flore a flower, fr. L. flos. See Flower, and cf. Floren.] A silver coin of Florence, first struck in the twelfth century, and noted for its beauty. The name is given to different coins in different countries. The florin of England, first minted in 1849, is worth two shillings, or about 48 cents; the florin of the Netherlands, about 40 cents; of Austria, about 36 cents.
Florist
Flo"rist (? ∨ ?; 277), n. [Cf. F. fleuriste, floriste, fr. F. fleur flower. See Flower.] 1. A cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers.
2. One who writes a flora, or an account of plants.
Floroon
Flo*roon" (?), n. [F. fleuron. See Flower.] A border worked with flowers.
Wright.
Florulent
Flor"u*lent (?), a. [L. florulentus, fr. flos, floris, flower.] Flowery; blossoming. [Obs.]
Blount.
Floscular
Flos"cu*lar (?), a. (Bot.) Flosculous.
Floscularian
Flos`cu*la"ri*an (?), n. [From L. flosculus a floweret.] (Zo\'94l.) One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk.
Floscule
Flos*cule (?), n. [L. flosculus, dim. of flos flower: cf. F. floscule.] (Bot.) A floret.
Flosculous
Flos"cu*lous (?), a. (Bot.) Consisting of many gamopetalous florets.
Flos-ferri
Flos`-fer"ri (?), n.[L., flower of iron.] (Min.) A variety of aragonite, occuring in delicate white coralloidal forms; -- common in beds of iron ore.
Flosh
Flosh (?), n. [Cf. G. fl\'94sse a trough in which tin ore is washed.] (Metallurgy) A hopper-shaped box or /nortar in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps.
Knight.
Floss
Floss (?; 195), n. [It. floscio flabby, soft, fr. L. fluxus flowing, loose, slack. See Flux, n.] 1. (Bot.) The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.
2. Untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering.
Floss silk, silk that has been twisted, and which retains its loose and downy character. It is much used in embroidery. Called also floxed silk. -- Floss thread, a kind of soft flaxen yarn or thread, used for embroidery; -- called also linen floss, and floss yarn.
McElrath.
Floss
Floss, n. [Cf. G. floss a float.] 1. A small stream of water. [Eng.]
2. Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.
Floss hole. (a) A hole at the back of a puddling furnace, at which the slags pass out. (b) The tap hole of a melting furnace.
Knight.
Flossification
Flos`si*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [Cf. Florification.] A flowering; florification. [R.]
Craig.
Flossy
Floss"y (?; 115), a. Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, floss; hence, light; downy.
Flota
Flo"ta (?), n. [Sp. See Flotilla.] A fleet; especially, a /eet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spain the production of Spanish America.
Flotage
Flo"tage (?), n. [OF. flotage, F. flottage, fr. flotter to float.] 1. The state of floating.
2. That which floats on the sea or in rivers. [Written also floatage.]
Flotant
Flo"tant (?), a. [OF. flotant, F. flottant, p.pr. of flotter to float.] (Her.) Represented as flying or streaming in the air; as, a banner flotant.
Flotation
Flo*ta"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. flottation a floating, flottaison water line, fr. flotter to float. See Flotilla.] 1. The act, process, or state of floating.
2. The science of floating bodies.
Center of flotation. (Shipbuilding) (a) The center of any given plane of flotation. (b) More commonly, the middle of the length of the load water line. Rankine. -- Plane, ∨ Line, of flotation, the plane or line in which the horizontal surface of a fluid cuts a body floating in it. See Bearing, n., 9 (c). -- Surface of flotation (Shipbuilding), the imaginary surface which all the planes of flotation touch when a vessel rolls or pitches; the envelope of all such planes.
Flote
Flote (?), v. t. To fleet; to skim. [Obs.]
Tusser.
Flote
Flote, n. [Cf. F. flot, L. fluctus; also cf. Float, n.] A wave. [Obs.] "The Mediterranean flote."
Shak.
Flotery
Flot"er*y (?), a. Wavy; flowing. [Obs.]
With flotery beard.
Chaucer.
Flotilla
Flo*til"la (?), n. [Sp. flotilla, dim. of flota fleet; akin to F. flotte, It. flotta, and F. flot wave, fr. L. fluctus, but prob. influenced by words akin to E. float. See Fluctuate, and cf. Float, n.] A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.
Flotsam, Flotson